Two weeks ago we also brought you exclusive news of Fiji’s cooling system from Cooler Master. We made it a note to point out that AMD has sufficient inventory of the card with the new cooling system to begin demoing it at tech shows. And it seems that’s what AMD is planning on doing in the next little while, perhaps beginning with GDC next week.

It seems that it’s not just PC hardware enthusiasts and gamers who are the only ones getting excited about the new graphics card. Game developers are also excited about the prospect of playing with more graphics horsepower to make their games look just that little bit better.

Jaymin Kessler and Dan Baker are both game developers. Although we’re more interested in Dan Baker due to his relationship with Oxide Games and Stardock. Brad Wardell the CEO of Stardock is the one who said that AMD is working on something “Crazy” for GDC during an interview a couple of weeks back. Oxide Games and Stardock partnered together to make the Nitrious engine, the very first engine to support AMD’s low level Mantle API. Both companies are AMD gaming evolved partners. Which means they get Radeon hardware directly from AMD to develop, test and validate on. So it’s quite possible that both of these game devs have already seen and used the new card or heard directly from AMD about its capabilities.

We are also very likely to see some of the new technologies which AMD baked into Carrizo make their way to Fiji XT. Technologies such as the AVFS ( Adaptive Voltage-Frequency Scaling ) sensors which enable smart voltage aware operation that reduces power by 10% at the same frequency. In addition to the new power and density optimized GPU process which can improve clock speeds by 10% or reduce power by a further 20% and finally an improved, even lower power sleep state.

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Stream Processors

Memory System

Memory Bandwidth

Memory Interface

GPU Clock Speed

Compute Performance

AMD Fiji XT

4096

4GB Stacked HBM

512GB/S

4096bit Wide IO

1000Mhz+

+8.2TFLOP*

AMD Radeon R9 290X Hawaii XT

2816

4GB GDDR5

320GB/S

512bit GDDR5

1000Mhz

5.6TFLOP

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980
GM204-400

2048

4GB GDDR5

224GB/S

256bit GDDR5

1216Mhz

4.6TFLOP

* Conservative estimate based on SP count and clock speed. Any architectural or HBM related improvements are unaccounted for.